Reading Intervention for K-12

Decoding Strategies for ESL Students

Learn how to simplify reading for ESL students:

Organizing the English Language for ESL Students

Aside from the frustration of a language barrier, ESL students are overloaded with new information—a new culture, a new environment, and new people. Being overloaded with so much new information is overwhelming, yet ESL students need to develop language skills quickly in order to adapt to their new surroundings.

How Can Reading Horizons Help?

Typically, ESL instruction takes a top-down approach that focuses on conversation skills, vocabulary, and syntax. This approach is valuable, but students also need strategies that empower them to decode words that they have not memorized using a top-down approach.

To help ESL students adjust to the English language and their new environment, Reading Horizons makes it easy to provide simple, succinct, and straightforward English instruction that is organized to accelerate learning for ESL students.

Simple, Straightforward Reading Instruction

Reading Horizons provides a research-based approach that breaks the basics of the English language into a step-by-step process that shows ESL students exactly what they need to do in order to learn to read, write, and communicate. The simple framework provides students with strategies for decoding the majority of the words in the English language.

Because the program provides a thorough explanation of the rules and structure of the English language, ESL students are empowered with strategies that dramatically decrease their reading, spelling, and pronunciation errors, while building their vocabulary and comprehension skills.

Learn how to help ESL students improve their reading, spelling, and pronunciation skills: